this is related to social work subject. it helps to understand the basic concept of a social work and also basic difference between social worker and a psychologist

2. Helping hand for vulnerable population

3. PSYCHOLOGISTS VS SOCIAL WORKERS
Social Work and Psychology share the same
outcome i.e. recognizing and treating mental
illness and empowering individuals in order to
improve their lives

4. WHAT IS SOCIAL WORK?
Social Work is the professional practice of
delivery Social Services
It deals with both person and environment
The primary mission of social work is to enhance
human well-being and help meet the basic
needs of people, with particular attention to the
needs and empowerment of people who are
vulnerable, oppressed and living in poverty
(NASW Code of Ethics)

5. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL WELFARE
Both terms came into existence early in the first half of 20th century
Social Work is carried out by trained individuals and they offer a
wide range of services and work under different settings
Social Welfare refers to a wide range of activities and services by
volunteers, non-profit organizations and governmental
organizations. Help provided to persons in need, activities and
resources to enhance or promote the wellbeing of individuals,
families and larger societies usually provided by governmental
programs or private agencies
They aim to eliminate or reduce social problems and aid in social
development as well as improve peoples lives.

7. HISTORY IN SOCIAL WORK
Religious beliefs improvised deep compassion, firm conviction and
a strong sense of justice
These groups have provided significant labour and financial
support
Faith background led the foundation of the movement as abolition,
temperance, establishment of settlement houses
Social Workers assisted in childcare, poor and improving social
welfare systems

8. It gradually progressed through Industrial Revolution 1760
to 1840 and two World Wars as there was large influx of
immigrants, rapid industrial and urban growth, low
wages, slum housing, diseases and child labour
It demanded greater public health efforts
• Mental Health Movement
• Settlement House Movement

9. Impact of Great Depression 1929–1939
• Social Security Act
• Great Society
Social Security Act:
National Systems of oldage, insurance for retires workers,
benefits for victims of accidents, unemployment issues,
dependant mothers and children, blind and handicapped
Great Society:
It was a set of domestic programs. Main goal was to eliminate
poverty and racial discrimination by more spending programs
such as education, medical care, urban/rural programs,
transportation

10. TIMELINE OF HISTORY OF SOCIAL WORK
 First Social Welfare Program: Elizabethian Poor Law (1601) which was
government provision for poor residing in the local parisons
 Thomas Chalmers in Scotland started personalised involvement with
the poor
 Charity Organization Society (COS) provided with individual
assessment, coordinated service plan and follow up
 Mary Richmond - COS leader, Social Diagnosis, Social Casework
 Settlement House Movement

11.  Jane Addams, Founder of Hull House
 First schools of Social Work started in early 1900s
 Emphasis on the casework; group work (late 1930s)
 National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
established in 1955

12. SOCIAL WORK FUNCTIONING BODIES
Professional Practice
NASW Code of Ethics All social workers are beholden to the Social
Work Code of Ethics —otherwise known as the National Association
of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics — during their studies and
vow to abide by its standards and principles throughout their careers.
Liberal Arts Foundation
Knowledge about human behavior, policy, research, practice, social and
economic justice, cultural diversity, populations at risk
Council on Social Work Education (CsWE) guides curriculum
Practice skills and process of planned change

13. HISTORICAL FIGURES IN SOCIAL WORK
 Jane Addams (1860 – 1935)
 Alfred Neumann (1910 -2002)
 Frances Feldman (1912-2008)
 Ida B.(1862-1931)
 Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
 George Edmund Haynes (1880-1960)
 Harriet Rinaldo (1906-1981)
 Grace Coyle (1892- 1962)
 Helen Harris Perlman (1905-2004)
 John Myron Rockmore (1913-2002)

14. PURPOSES OF SOCIAL WORK PROFESSION
 Enhance human wellbeing and alleviate social injustice
 Enhance social functioning and interactions of individuals,
families, groups, organizations and communities
 Formulate and implement social policies, services, and
programs that meet basic human needs and develop human
capacities
 Advocate for policies, services, resources that promote social
and economic justice
 Develop and use research, knowledge and skills that advance
social work practice
 Develop and apply practice in the context of diverse cultures

15. FUNCTIONS OF SOCIAL WORK
These activities can be grouped into three
functions
• Restoration of impaired capacity.
• Provision of individual and social resources.
• Prevention of social dysfunction.
The basic functions of social work are
intertwined and interdependent.

16. i. The rehabilitative aspect might be helping the one child to
psychologically accept and live with the hearing aid and supporting the
other child as he or she adjusts to the new foster home.
ii. Provision of resources, social and individual, for more effective social
functioning may be subdivided into: developmental and educational.
a. The developmental aspects are designed to further the effectiveness
of existing social resources or to bring to full flower personal capacity
for more effective social interaction.
• An example would be the services of a Family Service Society that help
Mr. and Mrs. X, through individual and conjoint interviews, to
understand each other better and to open the channels of meaningful
communication between them.

17. b. The educational spectrum is designed to acquaint the public with
specific conditions and needs for new or changing social
resources. Again, this could be illustrated by public talks given by
staff members of a Family Service Society, in which counseling
services are described as a resource in alleviating marriage and
family problems.
iii. The third function, prevention of social dysfunction, involves early
discovery, control, and elimination of conditions and situations that
potentially could hamper effective social functioning.
Two main divisions
Prevention of problems in the area of interaction between individuals
and
groups the prevention of social ills.

18. • Premarital counseling is an example of prevention. That
through this process couples will be able to anticipate possible
difficulties in marital interaction.
Prevention of social ills ordinarily falls within the area of
community organization.
• An example would be a community developing a youth center
for at risk youths for the prevention of gang violence.

19. SOCIAL WORK IS AN ART OR SCIENCE?
Social work is an art it requires great skills
to understand people and to help them to help themselves.
It is a beginning science because of its problem solving
method and its attempt to be objective in ascertaining
facts and in developing principles and operational
concepts.
It is a profession because it encompasses the attributes of a
profession
Professional bodies: NASW & CSWE

20. METHODS IN SOCIAL WORK
1. Casework (Individuals/Families)
2. Group Work
3. Community Organization
4. Research
5. Administration and Planning

21. CAREERS IN SOCIAL WORK
- Health Care
- Child Welfare
School Social Work
- Substance Abuse
- People with Disabilities
- Family Counseling
- Public Assistance
- Private Setting

22. OTHER HELPING PROFESSIONS
 Psychiatrists
 Psychologists
 Counselors
 Medicine
 Sociologists
 Nursing
 Physical and Occupational Therapy
 Teaching and Education

23. PSYCHIATRY AND SOCIAL WORK
Frequently members of the same professional team
Both professions work with people who have
personal/social problems. Help people improve their
relationships with others Interest and sensitivity in the
ability to understand and direct feelings & emotions

24. Psychiatry Social Work
deals with the treatment of an illness in
medical model
Social worker: focus on problems and
strengths in human relationships
Social worker utilizes community
resources
Works with family and marriage
The psychiatrist deals with the
treatment of illness and the
Medical model.
The social worker focuses on problems
and strengths in human Psychiatry and
Social Work relationships.
Places stress on intrapersonal
Dynamics, often delving into and
Handling unconscious motivation and
related factors.
The social worker utilizes
environmental and community
resources, usually operating within the
conscious level of behavior.
Psychiatry tends to focus on pathology
and the healing of illness. The
psychiatrist is particularly interested in
the internal dynamics ofindividual and
group behavior.
Social work concentrates on strengths
and the development of potential. The
social worker is especially concerned
about social functioning involving
social and community factors and
interactions.

25. PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK
Often members of the same professional team both are
interested in the behavior of people and their interaction
patterns

26. Psychology Social Worker
• Psychology: testing and
measurements - Individual
attributes of people
• Social worker: social functioning
• Psychology is the study of the
mind it seeks to study, explain,
and change behavior. Their
main focus is on individual
behavior.
• The social worker focuses on the
person in their environment.
• The psychologist is interested in
understanding the individual and
their behavior.
• The social worker is particularly
interested in the social
functioning and relationships of
clients and in utilizing
community resources to meet
clients personal and social
problems.

27. COUNSELING AND SOCIAL WORK
Counsellor Social Worker
Easily confused roles
1. School counselor are generally
trained in educational
psychology, work tends to be
short-termed.
2. Marriage counselor receive
graduate training from several
disciplines, including social work.
3. Rehabilitation counselors are
usually trained in educational
psychology and utilizes testing.
1. The social worker tends to be
more intensive, works with the
student longer, focuses on family
constellation, and utilizes
community resources.
2. Marriage counseling is one
particular emphasis in social
work practice.
3. The social worker usually assists
with the emotional and/or family
problems, has fewer cases, and
works with clients more
intensively.

28. DEGREES IN SOCIAL WORK
1. Bachelors (BSW)
Advocates, brokers, case managers, counselors, enablers, evaluators,
problem solvers
2. Masters (MSW)
Social work teacher, executive director of a social work organization,
behavior analyst, licensed clinical social worker, school counselors
3. PhD
Program administrator positions, college professors, mental health
clinicians, medical social workers, and field researchers.

29. GOALS OF SOCIAL WORK

40. SOCIAL WORK IN THE WORLD TODAY
Utilized in a variety of setting, such as: psychiatric, medical,
marriage, family, school, rehabilitation, corrections, public
welfare, workplace, drug abuse, child welfare›
Expanding international social work
New & challenging opportunities
Social work is becoming more important because thousands of
persons are benefiting from its services and are telling their
friends and associates who have problems of its many values
and services.

41. A prominent American made a statement that what
the United States needs most o f all to improve
its foreign policy and relations is to have
trained social workers as State Department
attaches where each o f the official government
representative works and lives.

42. FUTURE PROSPECTS
o Trained social workers in foreign countries would
understand the people and work with them where they
are, helping them to help themselves and interpreting the
United States in a much more favorable light than in the
past.
o Social work is here to stay and that in decades ahead it
will likely grow and expand its services, helping more
people with personal, family, and community problems,
especially related to adequate social functioning

43. SUMMARY
 People are at the core
 Social work focuses on helping people through
social functioning
 Basic functions of social work
 Shares some knowledge and skills with sociology,
psychiatry, and psychology